I love the responses of the shark "apologists" that I'm reading in the news: sharks really don't eat people, they're just "sampling" humans and then let them go. Some sample - bite an arm off.

Or the use of convoluted statistics to show that there really hasn't been an increase in shark attacks. It's just an illusion.

I'd like to cull the shark population. Not exterminate them, that would never be possible anyway.

The argument that sharks are necessary to maintain the natural ecological balance as a top ocean predator in the food chain is false. HUMANS have become the top predator. The sharks should be pushed aside, their role marginalized, as well as their danger to humans.

Art_Deco saidI love the responses of the shark "apologists" that I'm reading in the news: sharks really don't eat people, they're just "sampling" humans and then let them go. Some sample - bite an arm off.

Or the use of convoluted statistics to show that there really hasn't been an increase in shark attacks. It's just an illusion.

I'd like to cull the shark population. Not exterminate them, that would never be possible anyway.

The argument that sharks are necessary to maintain the natural ecological balance as a top ocean predator in the food chain is false. HUMANS have become the top predator. The sharks should be pushed aside, their role marginalized, as well as their danger to humans.

If you keep an eye out you'll just about always read or hear the people who've been attacked are inland tourists... or surfers.

From March to October hardly a day goes by I don't see sharks from my house. Big Bull Sharks come in the bayou and patrol the shallows looking for food all the time. They hang around my dock trying to get into my crab pen. Even on a good day visibility in the water is less than 4 feet. When the boys were 13-14 they improvised harpoons and would sit on the dock with their friends fishing and waiting for one to come in close enough.

The only place I go out in the water is on the gulf side of the island where the water is crystal clear. Even out there we see them from time to time but stay out of their way.

I wonder what the number would be if humans were added to the category of "animal."

SMART CALL PAUL.

If we want to stop humans from being being killed by animals we need to eradicate humans since they are the #1 killer of humans..

Meanwhile neighbor teen boys on my dock loaded me up with shark steaks from the ones they caught today. I had to laugh. They caught and slaughtered 4 sharks in one day. So what's the worldwide news coverage on that?

My doctor told me more money is spent on wounds from stingrays and saltwater catfish in one year than on shark bites in twenty years. I'm tracking that down for a link. BUT considering all the people I know who've been stabbed by stingrays and catfish and ended up in hospitals against the ZERO people I know who have been attacked by sharks I'm guessing my sassy doctor knows what she's talking about.

bobbobbob saidIf you keep an eye out you'll just about always read or hear the people who've been attacked are inland tourists... or surfers.

From March to October hardly a day goes by I don't see sharks from my house. Big Bull Sharks come in the bayou and patrol the shallows looking for food all the time. They hang around my dock trying to get into my crab pen. Even on a good day visibility in the water is less than 4 feet. When the boys were 13-14 they improvised harpoons and would sit on the dock with their friends fishing and waiting for one to come in close enough.

The only place I go out in the water is on the gulf side of the island where the water is crystal clear. Even out there we see them from time to time but stay out of their way.

bobbobbob saidIf you keep an eye out you'll just about always read or hear the people who've been attacked are inland tourists... or surfers.

From March to October hardly a day goes by I don't see sharks from my house. Big Bull Sharks come in the bayou and patrol the shallows looking for food all the time. They hang around my dock trying to get into my crab pen. Even on a good day visibility in the water is less than 4 feet. When the boys were 13-14 they improvised harpoons and would sit on the dock with their friends fishing and waiting for one to come in close enough.

The only place I go out in the water is on the gulf side of the island where the water is crystal clear. Even out there we see them from time to time but stay out of their way.